| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| When: | Monthly We do not meet in December, January, February and August. Timings are approx. 10:30 - 1:00 pm generally followed by optional lunch. Tours usually last between 1 ½-2hrs. |
| Cost: | Around £6 per trip, but this may vary according to the fee we need to pay individual guides. |
We visit towns and villages, local and further afield, exploring the architecture, history, development and what makes a place special.
Our walks are led by knowledgeable guides.
Where possible we meet for tea or coffee beforehand and lunch afterwards.
Upcoming trips for 2025:
- Alresford - Tuesday 11th November
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Previous Exploring Towns and Villages visits
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Hook - October 2025
Our October visit took us all the way to Hook, where we were given an excellent guided tour by our local historian, Nick Maslin. What Nick doesn’t know about Hook, isn’t worth knowing! We started our tour at the White Hart, who provided complimentary coffee to see us on our way. The White Hart itself…
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Hungerford - September 2025
September saw another first for the group when we visited Hungerford. We had an excellent guide, who was very knowledgeable and told us many interesting facts about the town. Hungerford lies on the historic London to Bath Road and also the Oxford to Salisbury Road. The town’s hey-day was in the Georgian period when the…
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North Warnborough - July 2025
Our last trip for this U3A year was to North Warnborough and Odiham Castle. Even though we might have thought we were very familiar with the village and even the castle, we discovered a lot of interesting facts from our excellent guide, Jane Pratt. The tour concentrated around the canal and Odiham Castle. We were…
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Bishop's Waltham - June 2025
Our June visit was to Bishop’s Waltham. A bit of a trek but well worth it. Bishop’s Waltham is a medieval market town situated at the source of the River Hamble. It has a foot in the South Downs National Park and is located at the midpoint of a long-established route between Winchester & Portsmouth.…
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Hartley Wintney - May 2025
We last visited Hartley Wintney in 2015 so thought it was about time we had another look – not that anything would have changed 😊. 20 of us enjoyed a very informative talk and tour of the village, some of us seeing parts that we’d never been to before. Hartley Wintney dates back to the…
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Amersham - April 2025
Our April visit took us to Amersham – another first for our group.Amersham is a market town in Buckinghamshire with a population of approx. 20,000.There are two distinct areas:• Old Amersham, set in the valley of the River Misbourne, containing the 13th-century parish church of St. Mary's and several old pubs and coaching inns.• Amersham-on-the-Hill,…
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Windsor - March 2025
Our first visit of the calendar year was to Windsor – the first time our group has been there. We had an excellent guide, who also happened to be the town crier so, as you can imagine, we were all able to hear him clearly. The tour, as one would expect, was dominated by the…
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Crondall November 2024
Our November visit was to Crondall, where 20 of us enjoyed a guided tour, led by Mike Jeffries of the Crondall Society, who was very knowledgeable. Crondall has a population of less than 2,000 people. It’s southern boundary is the North Downs, along which ran the prehistoric Harrow Way, an ancient unpaved route in Britain…
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Basingstoke October 2024
Our second visit of the year was to Basingstoke with the very knowledgeable guide Debbie Reavell from the Basingstoke Heritage Society. Not many of us knew much about Basingstoke before the post war modernisation but we learnt a great deal about the old town and some of the characters in it. Jane and Cassandra Austen…